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European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, right, speaks with Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo during a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels, Friday, March 24, 2023. European leaders gather Friday to discuss economic and financial challenges and banking rules, seeking to tamp down concerns about eventual risks for European consumers from banking troubles in the US and Switzerland. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

EU leaders play down bank risks as economy weakens

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From left, European Commissioner for An Economy that Works for People Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson chair a tripartite social summit ahead of an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels, Wednesday, March 22, 2023. European Union leaders meet Thursday for a two-day summit to discuss the latest developments in Ukraine, the economy, energy and other topics including migration. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU leaders set to endorse joint ammo purchases for Ukraine

By Samuel Petrequin and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

A man holds a picture of Turkey's President and ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan while celebrating outside the party headquarters in Istanbul, on June 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

Key dates in Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s 20-year rule of Turkey

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Ukrainian soldiers prepare a U.S.-supplied M777 howitzer to fire at Russian positions in Kherson region, Ukraine, Jan. 9, 2023. Quantifying the toll of Russia’s war in Ukraine remains an elusive goal a year into the conflict. Estimates of the casualties, refugees and economic fallout from the war produce an complete picture of the deaths and suffering. Precise figures may never emerge for some of the categories international organizations are attempting to track. (AP Photo/Libkos, File)

EU to speed up deliveries of howitzer shells for Ukraine

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

China says EU TikTok ban will harm business confidence

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FILE - In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal, EU and Ukraine official pose for a photo during the EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. War has been a catastrophe for Ukraine and a crisis for the globe. One year on, thousands of civilians are dead, and countless buildings have been destroyed. Hundreds of thousands of troops have been killed or wounded on each side. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP, File)

EU slaps sanctions on top Russia officials, banks, trade

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A visitor passes the TikTok exhibition stands at the Gamescom computer gaming fair in Cologne, Germany, Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022. The European Union's executive arm said Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023 it has temporarily banned TikTok from phones used by employees as a cybersecurity measure, reflecting growing worries from authorities over the Chinese-owned video sharing app. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) **FILE**

TikTok banned from EU Commission phones over cybersecurity

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, center, speaks with Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau, right, and Portugal's Foreign Minister Joao Gomes Cravinho, left, during a meeting of EU foreign ministers at the European Council building in Brussels on Monday, Feb. 20, 2023. European Union foreign ministers meet Monday to discuss Ukraine, Afghanistan and the situation in Iran. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU mulls ways to ramp up ammunition production for Ukraine

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Polish Ambassador to the U.S. Marek Magierowski, left, talks with European Union Amb. Stavros Lambrinidis as European diplomats arrive to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine with members of the Senate, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 10, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

EU’s top envoy says West must hold firm in fight for Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a yearly State of the Nation address in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Feb. 18, 2023. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

Hungary’s Orban accuses EU of prolonging war in Ukraine

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak gives a television interview on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Saturday Feb. 18, 2023. (Ben Stansall/Pool via AP)

UK PM splashes cold water on prospects of quick trade deal

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, andFrench Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu, right, walk on the tarmac of the Orly airport, south of Paris, Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2023. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will later have a working diner with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the Elysee Palace (Julien de Rosa, pool via AP)

Zelenskyy wraps up European tour with visit to EU summit

By Raf Casert and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen with a Ukrainian flag and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during the EU-Ukraine summit in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. ((Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

EU officials hold Kyiv talks in show of support for Ukraine

By Susie Blann - Associated Press

Secretary General of the European Union's European External Action Service Stefano Sannino speaks during a press conference at the Foreign Correspondents' Club Friday, Jan. 27, 2023, in Tokyo. Sannino said that Russia has taken its war against Ukraine to a “a different stage” by making indiscriminate attacks on civilians and non-military targets, while criticizing Moscow for triggering recent moves by Germany and the United States to send advanced tanks to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko)

EU official: Russia shifts war focus to ‘NATO and the West’

By Mari Yamaguchi - Associated Press

Crickets are seen in a tray of moistened peat as Shelby Smith owner of Gym-N-Eat Crickets works in her facility in Ames, Iowa, Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2022. Smith ordered her first 10,000 crickets Jan. 10, 2018, after her father, a farmer, encouraged her to explore a niche market rather than traditional farming markets like corn and soybeans. Smith produces the crickets that go into her protein bars, cricket powder and flavored, roasted cricket snacks. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette via AP) ** FILE **

Don’t drink the water? Don’t eat EU food

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Police border guards patrol along a border wall near the town of Feres, along the Evros River which forms the frontier between Greece and Turkey on Sunday, Oct. 30, 2022. Greece prevented some 260,000 migrants from entering illegally in 2022 and arrested 1,500 traffickers, Greece's minister in charge of the security told ambassadors from other European Union countries plus Switzerland and the United Kingdom Saturday, Jan. 21, 2023, as he guided them to a still expanding border wall in the country's northeast. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Greece expanding border wall, calls for EU help on migration

By Costas Kantouris - Associated Press

European Union envoy Miroslav Lajcak, center, addresses to the media with Francesco Talo, advisor to the Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni, left, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary Gabriel Escobar, second left, Jens Plettner, advisor of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, second right, and Emanuel Bonne, advisor of French President Emmanuel Macron, partially visible at right, after meeting with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic, in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Jan. 20, 2023. Western envoys on Friday were visiting Kosovo and Serbia as part of their ongoing efforts to defuse tensions and help secure a reconciliation agreement between the two. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Western envoys visit Kosovo, Serbia to defuse tensions

By Sylejman Kllokoqi and Llazar Semini - Associated Press

Live updates | World Economic Forum gathering in Davos

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This Feb. 19, 2014, file photo, shows WhatsApp app icon on a smartphone in New York. Ireland has fined WhatsApp for breaching strict European Union privacy rules by forcing users to consent to allow their personal data to be used to provide “service improvements and security.” The Data Protection Commission issued a 5.5 million euros ($5.9 million) penalty in the case on Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Ireland’s WhatsApp penalty highlights EU privacy turmoil

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

Poland's President Andrzej Duda attends a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2023. The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos from Jan. 16 until Jan. 20, 2023. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Live updates | World Economic Forum gathering in Davos

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